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please pease help..

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mommy2007 · 08/12/2007 22:28

Hi everyone,
im soooo upset!!! i have entered my daughter in the huggies smiler of the year competition and i overheard someone calling my daughter a HALF BREED! and that no one would vote her as she is not white, i was confident at first as i do think she is gorgeous but hearing that!!!
how could someone say that!! and the worst part is i know that person and that person speaks to me all lovely to my face.
please help and vote as i feel that no one will vote now!

www.bounty.com/babyphoto/browse.asp?btyCurrentPage=237
(Her name is naomi davis)

i so determined to prove her wrong!

thanks sorry very long
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mommy2007 · 09/12/2007 14:35

she has entered her child too, but im not sure what page the child is on, that y she made the comment she is confident her child will get more votes due to the colour teh skin, what madness is that!!! im still sooooo vexed about it!!!
i do really want to go up to her and have a go! but the person who said is quite a rough person she boasts everyweek that she got into a fight up town, im not that sort of person i dot go around punching people ima wimp, so im scared she will hit me if i confront her. does that sound silly?
thanks for voting!

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Acinonyx · 09/12/2007 20:10

Cashncarry - totally agree with you. It actually didn't even cross my mind that voting might be a proper response to this situaion.

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mommy2007 · 09/12/2007 21:31

thanks for the votes. keep them coming.
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mommy2009 · 09/12/2007 22:49

Wow - what a manipulative OP.

BahHunkerBug · 09/12/2007 22:49

What are you all going to do if MN gets a name for being a site on which you can rig votes for baby beauty pageants, given a suitable sob story?

Not saying you've made this up, M2007, but it's a slippery slope towards the invasion of the hun(s).

ISawSantaKissingKerrysNorks · 09/12/2007 22:52

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hercules1 · 09/12/2007 22:53

My kids are mixed race and I find this thread hard to believe. It's a great way to get votes but if it's true you are not helping to combat racism by entering your daughter into a beauty competition.

I actually find it offensive as you are implying that mixed race children are only worthy if they can win a sodding beauty competition, makes you no better than your friend.

hercules1 · 09/12/2007 22:53

Mixed race children can be ugly you know just the same way any one can be...

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QuintessentialShadowOfYuleTide · 09/12/2007 22:56

Your baby may be disqualified for this you know. Canvassing for votes like this, tut tut. The organizer will wonder why such a high amounts of votes are comming through from mumsnet, they can see in "history" exactly what people were looking at prior to voting. It is called "Fixing", I believe.

Saturn74 · 09/12/2007 22:57

I would think the organisers would probably disqualify any entry that is soliciting votes in this way.

Saturn74 · 09/12/2007 22:57

x-post

QuintessentialShadowOfYuleTide · 09/12/2007 22:58

AND two days running, dont you believe she can win on her own merits?

BahHunkerBug · 09/12/2007 22:58

QE has a point. I can see where traffic comes from for my blog. Fascinating, it is too - search engine terms, etc. If I click a link to a referrer, I get right to the thread on MN (or elsewhere) - and can read what people are saying about it.

candypandy · 09/12/2007 23:00

unbelievable

hope she wins

BahHunkerBug · 09/12/2007 23:02

Good lord, you really have set up a FB page!

TinyTimLivesinVictorianSqualor · 09/12/2007 23:02

Ah hunker, does that mean you can check what shopping (or porn with a pretence) dp was doing before I came to your blog

PillockOfTheCommunity · 09/12/2007 23:02

I will not be voting as I think this is just a ploy to get more votes, I will be reporting it to the competition though.

BahHunkerBug · 09/12/2007 23:04

LOL, no, VS - you can check how somebody navigated to your site - so if you click on a link to the blog from MN, or another place it's been posted, I can see that someone did that - but not who did it. So your secret's safe. Well, it would've been

Desiderata · 09/12/2007 23:49

Grow up, you silly bint.

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KITTYmaspudding · 10/12/2007 13:10

You load of miserable gits

TinyTimLivesinVictorianSqualor · 10/12/2007 18:13

Oh comeon kittymas!!
Surely you can see how unfair it is if the OP's child wins a competition purely based on a sob story

KITTYmaspudding · 10/12/2007 18:36

I can see your point tinytim, BUT What's the betting that most of the mums on there are canvassing votes?
I can see how it's wrong but then I only have to look at all those dancing/singing comps on t.,v and their friends and families are filmed canvassing AND it's always presented with a sob story, e.g "here's Mandy ( no offence to mandy's) she recently had all her limbs amputated,both her parents died yesterday and she's in a terrible mess" Mandy comes on weeping and is filmed over the following weeks, weeping. It happens all the time. gets on my (tiny) tits though!!!